Posted inClinical negligence Issue 5
Consent and Causation
Pepper v Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust [2020] EWHC 310 (QB) This article originally appeared in Issue 5 (May 2020). The Claimant alleged that she unnecessarily underwent a laparotomy and Whipple’s procedure, an operation undertaken to remove cancerous tumours from the head of the pancreas. The procedure was carried…